From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: Mallikarjun Thammanavar <mallikarjunst09@gmail.com>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, corbet@lwn.net,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: fix spelling and grammar in atomic_writes
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:48:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250819144856.GI7938@frogsfrogsfrogs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250819124604.8995-1-mallikarjunst09@gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 12:46:04PM +0000, Mallikarjun Thammanavar wrote:
> Fix minor spelling and grammatical issues in the ext4 atomic_writes
> documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mallikarjun Thammanavar <mallikarjunst09@gmail.com>
Much improved, thanks!
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
--D
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst
> index f65767df3620..b614b5ffe76b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/atomic_writes.rst
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ I/O) on regular files with extents, provided the underlying storage device
> supports hardware atomic writes. This is supported in the following two ways:
>
> 1. **Single-fsblock Atomic Writes**:
> - EXT4's supports atomic write operations with a single filesystem block since
> + EXT4 supports atomic write operations with a single filesystem block since
> v6.13. In this the atomic write unit minimum and maximum sizes are both set
> to filesystem blocksize.
> e.g. doing atomic write of 16KB with 16KB filesystem blocksize on 64KB
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Multi-fsblock Implementation Details
>
> The bigalloc feature changes ext4 to allocate in units of multiple filesystem
> blocks, also known as clusters. With bigalloc each bit within block bitmap
> -represents cluster (power of 2 number of blocks) rather than individual
> +represents a cluster (power of 2 number of blocks) rather than individual
> filesystem blocks.
> EXT4 supports multi-fsblock atomic writes with bigalloc, subject to the
> following constraints. The minimum atomic write size is the larger of the fs
> @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ The write must be aligned to the filesystem's block size and not exceed the
> filesystem's maximum atomic write unit size.
> See ``generic_atomic_write_valid()`` for more details.
>
> -``statx()`` system call with ``STATX_WRITE_ATOMIC`` flag can provides following
> +``statx()`` system call with ``STATX_WRITE_ATOMIC`` flag can provide following
> details:
>
> * ``stx_atomic_write_unit_min``: Minimum size of an atomic write request.
> --
> 2.43.0
>
>
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2025-08-19 12:46 [PATCH] docs: fix spelling and grammar in atomic_writes Mallikarjun Thammanavar
2025-08-19 14:48 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2025-08-19 17:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-08-29 22:32 ` Jonathan Corbet
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